Knowles, Walter Robert, Private, 26963, 2nd/6th Battalion, Nottinghamshire and Derbyshire Regiment
Previously served with 10th Battalion, Nottinghamshire and Derbyshire Regiment
Born Matlock, Derbyshire
Enlisted Matlock
Killed in action 13th December 1917 aged 19
Son of John and Mary Knowles, of Riber Hill Side, Matlock.
Buried in Ribecourt Road Cemetery, Trescault, I, C, 16

1911 Census
A school boy
Son of John George, a waller, and Mary Ann Knowles, of Riber Hill Side, Matlock, Derbyshire

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(Article from the Derbyshire Courier, 29th December 1917)

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Family headstone commemorating Walter Robert Knowles, St. Giles's Churchyard, Matlock

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